Grid Computing
By analogy, a computational grid is a hardware and software infrastructure that provides dependable, consistent, pervasive, and inexpensive access to high-end computational capabilities. The applications of grid computing are in:
- Chip design, cryptographic problems, medical instrumentation, and supercomputing.
- Distributed supercomputing applications use grids to aggregate substantial computational resources in order to tackle problems that cannot be solved on a single system.
Read more about this topic: Lateral Computing, A Review of Lateral-computing Techniques